Cristina Aragón Amonarriz holds a BA in Business Administration and a PhD inEconomy and Business Administration from the University of Deusto. She is currently Associate Professor at the Deusto Business School (University of Deusto), at the Donostia campus.Cristina teaches BA courses on Business Administration, in particular Business I, Business Policy I, and External Analysis. She also participates at the Doctoral Program "Business and territorial competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability". Recently, she has developed family firm's case studies and she has been involved in projects related with family or cooperative SMEs' succession, regeneration and sustainability.She is part of the “Competitiveness and Economic Development” research team, granted by the Basque Government. Her research interests include SMEs, family firms, competitiveness and sustainability, cooperation and cluster policy.